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US sending dozens of new fighter jets to Japan bases in $10 billion force modernization
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https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/05/asia/japan-us-fighter-jets-intl-hnk-ml/index.html
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The US military will send dozens of its newest fighter jets to Japan as part of a $10 billion upgrade of its forces in the country, the Defense Department announced Wednesday.
“In the face of the most severe and complex security environment since the end of World War II, and amidst the increased military activities of neighboring countries, the United States is maintaining and strengthening the presence of U.S. forces in Japan to further enhance the deterrence and response capabilities of the Japan-U.S. alliance,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi, the government’s top spokesman, said at a regular briefing Thursday.
Japan’s alliance with the US has become increasingly important in a region that is seeing China, Russia and North Korea all pose threats that Tokyo seeks to counter.
Japan also keeps a wary eye on the situation surrounding Taiwan, the self-ruled democratic island that the Chinese Communist Party has vowed to bring under Beijing’s control, by force if necessary.
Manufacturer Boeing says the jet has “unparalleled weapons capacity,” with an ability to carry 12 advanced medium-range, air-to-air missiles (AMRAAM) and to fire them from a range “farther than any other fighter in the US Air Force arsenal.”
“The F-35 is an excellent low-observable sensor platform that could operate forward in stealth mode relaying data back to patrolling F-15EXs with their supersonic cruise and large air-to-air missile load outs,” said Layton, a fellow at the Griffith Asia Institute in Australia and former Royal Australian Air Force officer.
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